The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

But the funding round fell short of the $400–500 million that TechCrunch reported the company was pursuing last October. It also built a pop-up vertiport in Singapore for a tech conference late last year. The power-to-weight ratio is a huge challenge for electric flight.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The conversion ratio for calories in versus calories out is seven to eight calories for a chicken for one calorie out, while plant-based is one calorie in and one out.”. Cultivated meat is just one of the approaches to meeting future demand for protein alongside plant-based and fermentation techniques.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

As for where, Volocopter has conducted flight tests in Singapore, Helsinki, Dubai, and its headquarters in Bruchsal, Germany — so most likely in one of those cities. million) in a funding round led by Geely, the Chinese parent company of Volvo Cars. Tickets cost €300 ($355) and can be reserved with a 10 percent deposit.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Homebase , a Ho Chi Minh City-based proptech startup that helps people buy homes, announced today it has raised $30 million in equity and debt (the ratio was undisclosed). co, one of the largest property portals in Singapore and Indonesia. YC-backed Homebase is an alternative to traditional mortgages for home buyers in Vietnam.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Why raise more capital if it didn’t need the funds? The company also sports net retention figures of around 125%, and a strong ratio of account size versus customer acquisition costs. Notably LeadIQ has two main hubs, one in the United States and one in Singapore. Those are the sorts of metrics that SaaS investors covet.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

million in pre-seed funding led by AC Venture and Alpha JWC, with participation from Living Lab Ventures and Ciputra Group. The funding will be used of product development, hiring and expanding its products. That is low copared to Malaysia and Singapore, which are at 30% or higher. The startup announced today it has raised $3.8

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

One of the biggest funding trends of the past year is companies that consolidate small e-commerce brands. Una did not disclose the ratio of equity and debt in the round. Una currently has teams in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia and plans to expand in Southeast Asia before entering Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

While Opontia does not disclose the ratio of equity and debt, it confirmed that the majority was debt which will be used to make acquisitions. Before that, he spent years doing venture capital, investing and banking across Southern Africa, London, New York and Singapore.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

Kredivo is operated by Singapore-based fintech FinAccel. He added that Kredivo’s effective risk-scoring model allows to charge low interest rates, and its non-performing loan ratio is in the low single-digits, despite the economic impact of COVID-19, which Garg described as a “trial by fire.”. The first round was closed in July 2020.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek launched a pair of state-of-the-art, open-source AI models that require far less computing power and capital than those of Western companies, sending shockwaves through Silicon Valley and the Wall Street firms that fund them. To date, they have donated around $12.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

The Singapore-based edtech platform announced today that it has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding from Kalaari. The funding will be used to start scaling Creative Galileo across Southeast Asia, hiring for local teams in Indonesia and Vietnam, its next markets. Capital, East Ventures, Affirma Capital and angel investors.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

ByteDance could fetch a valuation of between $150 billion and $180 billion in an initial public offering, a premium relative to sales of as much as 20% to social media giant Tencent thanks to a larger global footprint and burgeoning games business, estimated Ke Yan , Singapore-based analyst with DZT Research. Dave Gershgorn / OneZero ).

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

These billionaires’ arsenals are funding everything from nerdy political science experiments to divisive partisan news sites to rivalrous attempts to overhaul the party’s beleaguered data file. Facts and logic aside, get ready: you’re about to hear a lot more cries from people complaining that they have been censored by Twitter.

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